But I couldn't pass up the similarity to the main story - left-leaning CA wants to leave because of a single election where the left spent the entire time trying to insult people into voting their way, and even Obama-supporting gay-marrying Iowa went red. And two posts after someone states some facts about agriculture the whole region produces nothing but garbage unfit for human consumption that civilized nations won't buy. *shrug*

Same here. Won't eat anything GMO.. Unfit for human consumption. Pretty much everything produced from the midwest area parent is touting. Additionally, most civilized nations around the world won't buy any of the Monsanto GMO garbage either, produced from that same region as well.

I can understand believing the European protectionist/anti-capitalist propaganda, and it's fine if you want to make choices for yourself based on it. But when your response to someone pointing out facts about agriculture is rant about how much of the country "produces garbage" - that's how you alienate the people who live there and lose elections because of it.

Anyway, do you agree that California doesn't "grow 2/3 of the US crops"? 'Cause that was my entire point.

I'm just here to correct a statistic that was obviously wrong and the perception that California 'feeds the world'. If living somewhat close to other people who are successful makes you feel special I might be a little sad for you, but that's your business.

You must mean 2/3 of the crop species. California only produces about 11% of the food grown in the US (by value) and has more than 12% of the population. Iowa has less than a tenth as many people and produces more than 2/3 the crop value that Cali does. 'You', or rather the state you're in, produce a variety of fruits and veggies. But the grain and grain-fed meat that make up the bulk of what people in the US eat comes from the Midwest.

And caloric appears to account for the flow of heat--and a depletion of phlogiston is why burning wood results in ashes--and lumnifierous ether is the medium of for the propagation of light waves in interstellar space.

So dark matter is the best theory known given the data we have, and if it does get disproved the process of doing so will point us toward better theories? Sounds like science at its best.

Sci-fi and a lot of "geekdom" in general does have a misogyny problem.

No, "geekdom" has social-skills issues. A poorly done romantic overture isn't misogyny, it's just another clumsy social interaction. And it doesn't help the kind of people who take things literally that we have so many rules that are taboo to talk about - from "male sexuality is always seen as being dangerous, even if she has more control over the situation than you do" to "people will judge your behavior towards women more harshly".

If your book is about space marines and 90% of the characters are male, that's not misogyny... it's life. If the book were then to only refer to and treat women as sex objects, submissive servants, etc. That's misogyny.

No, that's also (in some cases) life. Or are we banning "The Stepford Wives" now? Or is it just positive or neutral portrayals of those subjects?

Too many people confuse omission for exclusion and both for derision and/or subjugation.

Exactly. Just like some people confuse portrayals or exploration of subjugation with endorsement of it. Or endorsement of ideas that they don't like with evil.

Regardless, you can write good sci-fi in the constraints laid out by the SJW.

You can write good sci-fi without aliens, too. The question should be "Why should fictional entertainment, especially a genre often used as an exploration of ideas, be forced to exclude ideas that one particular group has political issues with?". What's next, communism sucks therefore Star Trek shouldn't be allowed to show a money-free future?

So the government claims it owns the air. Thus no matter what you do, if you've used some of 'their' oxygen (or some of your employees used it, even during childhood), "you didn't build it" and it's not really yours.

How would you make the uber drivers go into an area they don't want to go into, if it isn't by offering them more money?? Armed police?

You ask for volunteers just like we do for most disasters.

Are all the cops volunteers who work for free?
Are all the doctors volunteers who work for free?
Are all the funeral homes going to work for free?
Are all the people who clean up and fix things working for free?